How can you comment about something, if you can’t provide a bit of background? Not very well.
Yet Associated Press is trying to unilaterally corral the World Wide Web herd of commenting cats.
Christopher Lynn sums up the dispute well:
“As a content creator, I’m all for intellectual property; copying content is the modern day stealing. But […]
Twitter posts generally have a half-life of a few hours, before they disappear into a dead zone of 140-character comments.
But when you post something on the Internet, immortality is only a few links away.
The Twitter Hall of Shame
Ariel Waldman’s War on Twitter /Online Harassment Complaint Hounds Twitter
Tweetshots
A transitory medium can last beyond the moment when […]
Reporters are often looking for a follow-up angle for a news item.
If your company sells travel insurance, for example, there are frequent news stories about tourism, travel interruptions, health alerts, big storms and airport security.
Your goal isn’t just to get mentioned in the media. You should also be positioning your organization as a reliable […]
It’s such a simple service, but the usefulness of Twitter confounds many observers and participants.
It’s easy to mock Twitter for the trivial content that gets posted by different people.
When I have time at home, I tend to put Twitter in a small Window, (using Twhirl), and it checks for new updates every 3-4 minutes.
The background […]
Having kids can interfere with some career plans, but we also get a lot back. Not the least of which is a new perspective on our lives and careers.
The b5media business bloggers tackled this topic from different perspectives this week.
For links to all the posts, visit Shannon Cherry’s Startup Spark (a blog worth visiting, anyway). […]
Worth reading:
I Want to Speak Like Steve Jobs - Drew McLennan, like a lot of us, is a student of one of the geniuses of the personal presentation.
The ‘Mystery’ of Lousy Customer Service - An adversarial attitude toward customers or employees is a sign of a company that doesn’t know how to behave, says […]
You think you know the facts about something that’s common knowledge. Not so, unless you check the facts.
Techdirt’s Mike Masnick points to a copyright blogger who notes a paper that details the incorrect assumptions about the popular song that pulls in millions of dollars each year on a copyright that may not be valid. […]
A photographer is spotted taking pictures of children. Someone worries he might be up to something, and calls the police.
They track him on community security cameras and a cop pulls him over.
His question, after being stopped for possibly taking inappropriate photos: Why didn’t the person just ask him why he was taking pictures?
This is […]
There is no magic solution to all business issues, so stop looking for the online discussion tool to solve every last thing.
On the other hand, there remain a committed group of corporate communicators and their bosses who are determined to resist the lure of wikis, blogs, podcasts and other conversational tools for business.
Shel Holtz does […]
Business communications for the real world
Written by Eric Eggertson [email] for b5media.
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